Fundraising for these real estate vehicles is lacklustre as the industry awaits final regulatory guidelines from the US Treasury

As private real estate investment continues its relentless growth in Asia-Pacific, Preqin and APREA launch the most complete performance dataset ever compiled for the region.   

How Mexico is laying the groundwork for significant alternatives opportunity. Mexico has lately bobbled in and out of favour with global investors. Recent news media on the country’s trade debates with the US has broadcasted mixed signals on the economic policy of Mexico’s newly elected President A…

The real estate industry has been running slightly counter-cyclical to the wider private capital industry in recent quarters. While fundraising in private equity and private debt has been declining since the middle of 2018, real estate funds surged to their highest fundraising in over a year in Q1. …

Preqin’s very first Japan-focused report, the recently released Preqin Investor Outlook: Alternatives in Japan, dives into the past, present and future of the alternative investment landscape in the country. Among the issues and trends discussed in the report, which also features insights from local…

In Japan, regulatory factors, such as the adoption of the negative interest rate policy in 2016, and slow economic growth, are changing the country’s investment landscape. More and more institutional investors are moving into alternative assets from traditional investments in search of yield. Altho…

Preqin's Mark O'Hare discusses the advantages and disadvantages of subscription credit facilities in the private capital industry today. Subscription credit facilities: angels or demons? A legitimate and valuable tool for managing liquidity and streamlining transactions in a competitive market, or …

India has historically been a non-traditional investment market, particularly in the case of real estate. Yet, there are signs that this could now be changing. The real estate industry in India is expected to reach a market size of $1tn by 2030, up from $120bn in 2017, and to contribute 13% of the c…

Our private capital benchmarks are considered an industry standard. However, with all that information at your fingertips, sometimes it can be frustrating to try and find what you need among the thousands of vehicles with fund-level performance data. This is why we have upgraded our fund-level priv…

The final instalment of our blog series, taken from our Don’t Believe the Hype whitepaper, looks at the different ways data is used and analyzed. Can You Repeat the Question?Once all the available information has been gathered, and moulded to give a fair reflection of the realities of the industry,…

To help alternative asset professionals conduct better company searches we have completely reclassified how we are categorizing businesses, and hve updated over 220,000 portfolio companies with more granular, in-depth information. NEW: Introducing VerticalsVerticals are markets that involve a group…

Next in our blog series taken from our Don’t Believe the Hype whitepaper, we discuss how best to model data and why too much data is not necessarily a good thing. Modelling the DataEven when all the available data has been collected and logged in the dataset, the work has barely begun. Raw data, e…

How important do you believe environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors – including diversity in the workplace – are to investors? Posed by an audience member, this was the final question asked of a panel of fund managers at Preqin’s recent breakfast seminar in New York, after discussing tr…

In this extract from our Don’t Believe the Hype whitepaper, we discuss the challenges of a lack of regulatory reporting requirements in the industry and how this can be overcome. Knowns, Unknowns and Known UnknownsAlthough most alternative assets industry participants have few or no regulatory repo…

As ESG continues to grow in prominence in the alternatives assets industry, so too does the amount of conversation around it. Here, Preqin speaks to Beth Richtman from CalPERS for their take on the subject. There are many definitions of ESG in the industry– what does this term mean to CalPERS?For u…

Preqin is constantly looking at how alternative assets are evolving in order to ensure our data adds context, clarity and conviction to your decision-making. The use of subscription credit facilities (also known as equity bridge facilities, subscription line facilities or capital call facilities) by…

The next instalment of our blog series taken from our Don’t Believe the Hype Whitepaper explores the historically secretive nature of the alternatives industry and why the need for reliable and accurate data is higher than ever. An Opaque IndustryEven in the complex world of finance, the alternativ…

The US-China trade war, Harvard University and Brexit are just a handful of examples of news topics that have grabbed Preqin's attention over the past week. Please note, some of these sites may require a subscription to view the article. Stocks are plunging as investors try to anticipate the outcom…